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Douglas Wilson

With the exception of a brief foray into abstraction in the 1960s, the portfolio of Douglas Wilson is comprised of figurative and surrealist interpretations of the landscape. Ask when the artist first discovered the locations that inspired his works and he claims his is “more of a visionary process”, adding: “My compositions are inspired by the feeling of a place rather than what’s physically there in front of me. We live with a lot of ugliness in England, but among it there is still a wealth of beautiful countryside to be explored.”

And inspiration is certainly not in short supply for the Shropshire-based artist, “I mostly work from

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